# bipolar day (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover bipolar day. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Black Dog’s Sibling: Or What Happens When Your Heart Is Broken](https://smedler.substack.com/p/the-black-dogs-sibling-or-what-happens) _2026-06-22 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ In my previous post, I wrote about depression and how it has affected me throughout my life. It is both interesting and a dubious privilege to experience, within the same year, two different states that are commonly referred to as depression: severe biological depression on the one hand, and grief on the other. ## [The black dog](https://smedler.substack.com/p/the-black-dog) _2026-06-02 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ Many of us, like Winston Churchill, have lived our lives with an unwelcome guest in the form of a black dog. ## [The Eyes Are the Mirror of the Soul](https://smedler.substack.com/p/the-eyes-are-the-mirror-of-the-soul) _2026-01-06 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ Look into your neighbor’s eyes. ## [Consciousness, Intentions, and the Social Game](https://smedler.substack.com/p/consciousness-intentions-and-the) _2025-09-02 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ In the previous post I wrote about consciousness and how one might think about where it begins; that it is like a wave without a clear start or end. ## [Chasing One’s Shadow](https://smedler.substack.com/p/chasing-ones-shadow) _2025-06-09 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ Reflecting on the existence of the universe, the origins of life, and why life became conscious is something most people do now and then—some more than others, and perhaps especially when young. ## [A medical mystery](https://smedler.substack.com/p/a-medical-mystery) _2025-03-30 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ The other evening, I rewatched the excellent film Awakenings, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. ## [Psychiatric diagnostics 8](https://smedler.substack.com/p/psychiatric-diagnostics-8) _2025-03-23 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ This is a continuation of my series of posts on psychiatric diagnostics. ## [In the eye of the beholder](https://smedler.substack.com/p/in-the-eye-of-the-beholder) _2024-12-31 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ Happy new year! ## [Days come and go in our lives](https://smedler.substack.com/p/days-come-and-go-in-our-lives) _2024-12-23 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ I don’t want to miss a single day ## [Generate Viral Hot Takes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/HMcy063rNLmq) _2024-12-23 · **Sponsored**_ Get platform-optimized hot takes and rebuttals to spark debate and engagement ## [Rise, take up your bed, and walk: catatonia](https://smedler.substack.com/p/rise-take-up-your-bed-and-walk-catatonia) _2024-09-01 · Dr Erik Smedler · Can the brain understand itself?_ In the Gospel of John in the New Testament, it describes how Jesus heals a paralyzed man at Bethesda.